Interests

These are my significant interests. The ones that have changed the way I think and work, for the better I hope.

GTD

This has probably had the most significant impact on my life (besides the kids!).
I used to be very forgetful, not your average forgetful, I’m forget your Mums birthday forgetful (twice running, ouch!).
So when I discovered GTD back in 2007,
it changed my life. Now I’m anal about capturing everything, nothing escapes the system.
My mind is like water,
my tasks are in a trusted system, not my sieve head. I’d be lost without it and now I never forget (well *I do* but my system doesn’t).

I set out on a quest to find the perfect GTD app to be my trusted system. I wrote a series of posts reviewing
GTD apps with great UXs.

BDD

I struggled with TDD at first. The notion of testing something that isn’t there didn’t make sense.
It made sense as a design tool, as documentation and as a suite of tests.
Plus the benefits were clear. I persevered, but it’s hard when your brain is hard wired to think the opposite.
Then I discovered BDD.
The idea of describing a feature (in code, like a test) and then writing the feature, makes complete sense.
Just that change of language and perspective, from a test oriented language to a business domain language to describe features
(from the outside to the inside), everything became clearer. Now I don’t write tests ;)